Police investigating the kidnapping of model Chloe Ayling have arrested another man.

Michal Konrad Herba, the brother of chief suspect Lukasz Pawel Herba, was arrested on a European Arrest Warrant in Tividale, the National Crime Agency said.

He is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates Court on August 17.

The National Crime Agency and EMSOU are providing specialist support to the Italian Polizia di Stato as part of this ongoing investigation.

Model Chloe Ayling (Image: Instagram)

It comes days after Lukasz Pawel Herba said he did not knowingly take part in any crime.

Lukasz Pawel Herba says his involvement stems from wanting to raise money to treat his leukaemia and that he was hired by a group of Romanians to rent properties around Europe to store garments they were selling, according to reports.

He is also said to have told investigators he posed as a photographer and met Chloe Ayling.

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He said he was paid £500,000, found out the Romanians intended to kidnap her, and backed out of the plan.

His side of the story has emerged as Ms Ayling's representatives dismissed doubts about the ordeal, saying it was real and terrifying.

Italian police said she was snatched last month by a group calling itself Black Death.

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The 20-year-old said she was injected with ketamine after being lured to a fake modelling shoot in Milan before being bundled into the boot of a car and told she was going to be sold as a sex slave.

Ms Ayling, of Coulsdon, south London, has recalled her abduction calling it her "worst nightmare".

Speaking to the Mail on Sunday about the moment she was abducted, she said: "I didn't know what was in the syringe. I was panicking. I thought they were going to rob or rape me. I was terrified beyond words.